Corey's Ramblings

Description

A year-long reading project to explore all English translations of Italo Calvino's works.

Problem The archetypal zen view occurs in a famous Japanese house, which gives this pattern its name. Solution If there is a beautiful view, don’t spoil it by building huge windows that gape incessant...

“That cannot be done.” Is rarely true, but it’s a phrase I’ve heard more and more from technical people without offering any rationale or further explanation...

Two experiments, theoretically motivated by the construction-integration model of text comprehension (W. Kintsch, 1988), investigated the role of text coherence in the comprehension of science tex...

We’re not sure what we’d do if we were given $1,000 to invest, but we were incredibly moved by Vic’s choice to start a company and run it into the ground in ...

We've just finished the fiction series, so it's time for another meta episode! Dr. Brooke Macnamara is an associate professor of psychology at Purdue. She...